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It’s unfortunate we have “Furlough Fridays” affecting all Hawaii’s public school students. But, because Hawaii is such a small place, both big and small businesses of our community have an obligation to pitch in.

Through hosting this Furlough Friday science and energy day, Chaminade’s Hogan Students, Sopogy and Energy Industries, our sponsors including Styrophobia, Waialua Soda Works, Round Table Pizza, volunteers from the High Technology Development Corporation, Hawaii Science and Technology Council and Kanu Hawaii are being part of the solution.

In attendance at our Furlough Friday event we hosted 52 students from Waianae, Waipahu, Mililani, Campbell, McKinley, Kailua, Moanalua, Pearl City and a number of home schooled students. This was our answer…

What will you do?

We challenge all Hawaii businesses to heed the call.

There are many ways you can help:

Host a Furlough Friday event at your site

Participate in an existing Furlough Friday event

Sponsor with your goods

Volunteer with your service

Donate, even a small amount of cash helps a lot!

Here’s the agenda from our day. Perhaps this format will give you some ideas to help you plan yours:

Station 1: James Koshiba of Kanu Hawaii
Station 2: Keiki-Pua Dancil of Hawaii Science and Technology Council

1:00 – 2:30 CSP Making Project and Competition

Top 10 students received $10 Jamba Juice Gift Cards donated by Sopogy

Here are some additional notes:

On Monday prior to the event we had 1 student. We put out a call to all our friends for help. In the following 3 days over 51 participants signed up. Thank you to all who volunteered helping spread the word. They include:

Cathy Kawano-Ching – Punahou

Pono Shim – Enterprise Honolulu

Carolyn Kaichi – Hawaii Academy of Science

Sandy Park and Sandi Kanemori – High Technology Development Corporation

Leigh-Ann Miyasato – Entrepreneur Foundation

Representative Lyla Berg

Senator Jill Tokuda

Ron Nagasawa – Midweek

Sherry Menor-McNamara – Chamber of Commerce Hawaii

Ann Davis – Education Matters

Colleen Murakami – Student Support OCISS

The Honolulu Advertiser

Hawaii News Now

Sopogy, Energy Industries and the participants employed “Fossil Fuel Free Friday” with the commitment to use efficient transportation methods. People came in riding bikes, car pooling, catching the bus, walking, running and some even skateboarded in!

Here’s a picture gallery of the day:

52 participants joined the Sopogy and Energy Industries Furlough Friday